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During a recent outreach session in Accra, two women approached me with questions that many Ghanaians have quietly been asking.<\/p>\n
The first, Ama, was a confident young woman in her late 20s who had heard about the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign. “Doctor,” she asked, “why can’t I take it too? I’m a woman, and I want to protect myself from cervical cancer.”<\/p>\n
Moments later, a mother named Esi approached with her 10-year-old daughter, who had just received the vaccine at school….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> During a recent outreach session in Accra, two women approached me with questions that many Ghanaians have quietly been asking. The first, Ama, was a confident young woman in her late 20s who had heard about the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign. “Doctor,” she asked, “why can’t I take it too? I’m a woman, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":210848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,32774,4508,4509,8226,29207,257,254,7317,14083],"class_list":["post-210847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ages","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-hpv","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-targets","tag-vaccination"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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